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>> that's absolutely right vladimir putin first came into the public sphere in a, in a, in a global way, when boris yeltsin, the president of russia, who president clinton, and all the western leaders at the time had worked with because it was yeltsin who have a oversaw the dissolution of the soviet union at the end of gorbachev's term. and it was yeltsin who the west stored they could work reads two create a different kind of russia and finally a different kind of relationship on the continent of europe, there would be democratic and free, and that would be uncontested in that regard. and it was yeltsin who then raised to his prominent place vladimir putin, saying that he wanted him to succeed him in part because he thought vladimir putin biden would protect his family, would not pursue any corruption charges against him vladimir putin had grown up through the intelligence services notably